Ajam Media Collective Podcast
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Ajam Media Collective Podcast
A podcast series exploring the "Ajam" world, from Anatolia to South Asia and beyond. From the editors and contributors at Ajam Media Collective.
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Ajam Podcast #47: Towards An Environmental History of Modern Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews James Gustafson, Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University, about his new book, The Lion and the Su...
Ajam Podcast #46: Sufi Communities in Afghanistan
In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Annika Schmeding, Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and a Lecturer...
Ajam Podcast #45: Toward a Relational Understanding of the Persian Gulf
In this episode, Belle interviews Arang Keshavarzian, Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, about his rece...
Ajam Podcast #44: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Modern Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews Niloofar Haeri, Anthropology Professor at Johns Hopkins University, about her recent book, Say What Your Longing Hea...
Ajam Podcast #43: Histories of Blackness, Enslavement, and Erasure in Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, about her recent book, The Color Black:...
Ajam Podcast #42: The 2009 Green Movement and Legacies of Protest in Modern Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Pouya Alimagham, a Lecturer at MIT, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiati...
Ajam Podcast #41: The Incarcerated Modern in Iran & Global Solidarity
In this episode, Belle interviews Golnar Nikpour, Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College, about her recent book, The Incarcerated Modern:...
Ajam Podcast #40: Sufism, Knowledge, and Unknowing in Contemporary Iran
In this episode, Belle interviews Seema Golestaneh, Associate Professor in Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University, about her recent book, Unknowin...
Ajam Podcast #39: Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism
In this episode, Belle interviews Samuel Hodgkin, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, about his recent book, Persianate...
Ajam Podcast #38: Iran's Alternative Art Scene
In this episode, Dr. Belle Cheves interviews Pamela Karimi, Professor of Art Education, Art History & Media Studies at UMass Dartmouth, about her book...
Ajam Podcast #37: Sufi Miracle Workers of Malaya
In this episode, Lindsey, Rustin, and Ali interview Dr. Teren Sevea, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School about his recen...
Ajam Podcast #36: Being Persian before Modern Iran
In this episode, Ali interviews Dr. Mana Kia, an Associate Professor in Columbia University’s department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African S...
Ajam Podcast #35: Creating India, Forgetting Hindustan
In this episode, Ali interviews Dr. Manan Ahmed Asif, an Associate Professor in Columbia University’s History department, about his book, [The Loss of...
Ajam Podcast #34: Finding Home through Armenian Music with Joseph Bohigian
In this episode, Kamyar and Rustin interview Armenian-American composer and performer Joseph Bohigian about his latest musical composition, “The Water...
Ajam Podcast #33: Muslim Narratives of the Formation of Premodern Gujarat
In this episode, Lindsey and Ali interview Dr. Jyoti Gulati Balachandran, Assistant Professor of History at Penn State, about her book [Narrative Past...
Ajam Podcast #32: Chinese Muslims and Imperial Japan
In this episode, Rustin and Ali interview Dr. Kelly Anne Hammond, Assistant Professor of East Asian History in the Department of History at the Univer...
Ajam Podcast #31: The Life & Times of Sufi-Flamenco Star Aziz Balouch
In this episode, Kamyar and Rustin welcome back Dr. Stefan Williamson Fa to talk about the extraordinary life and music of Sufi-Flamenco star, Aziz Ba...
Ajam Podcast #30: Histories of Migration and Exchange between Iran and the Deccan
In this episode, Ali and Lindsey are joined by Dr. Keelan Overton, an independent scholar in Santa Barbara, and Dr. Subah Dayal, Assistant Professor a...
Ajam Podcast #29: Nostalgic Desire & the Restoration of Kabul’s Darul Aman Palace
In this episode, Rustin interviews Dr. Huma Gupta, the Neubauer Junior Research Fellow at Brandeis University, about her 2017 article, “['Nostalgic De...
Ajam Podcast #28: Institutionalizing Persian Literature in Iran & Afghanistan
In this episode, Rustin interviews Dr. Aria Fani, Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Washington, about his upcoming book pr...
Ajam Podcast #27: Monsoon Mobilities in the 19th Century
In this episode, Lindsey is joined by Dr. Johan Mathew, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, to talk about the circulation of goods a...
Ajam Podcast #26: Rüya with Murat Keyder
In this episode, Kamyar is joined by Murat Keyder, a New York City-based musician and composer, to talk about his recent album, *[Rüya](https://open.s...
Ajam Podcast #25: Rebels, Imams, and the Problems of History in Early Islam
In this episode, Rustin and Ali are joined by Professor Najam Haider, Professor of Religion at Barnard College, to talk about his recent book, The Reb...
Ajam Podcast #24: Imperial Mecca
In this episode, Lindsey is joined by Dr. Michael Christopher Low, Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University, to talk about his new book...
Ajam Podcast #23: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
In this episode, Rustin is joined by Dr. Neda Maghbouleh and Dr. Amy Malek to interview Dr. Narges Bajoghli, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studie...
Ajam Podcast #22: Paradoxes of Dual Citizenship
In this episode, Rustin is joined by Dr. Neda Maghbouleh and Dr. Narges Bajoghli to interview Dr. Amy Malek, Assistant Professor of International Stud...
Ajam Podcast #21: Reimagining Baloch “Mercenaries” in the Western Indian Ocean
In this episode Lindsey interviews Ameem Lutfi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore.
Ajam Podcast #20: Metaphysics and the Occult in Iran
In this episode, Rustin and Ali interview Alireza Doostdar, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion at the University...
Ajam Podcast #19: A Cinematic History of Iranian Cosmopolitanism
In this episode, Rustin interviews Golbarg Rekabtalaei, an Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall University. She is the author of [Iranian Cosm...
Ajam Podcast #18: Of Gardens and Graves in Kashmir
In this episode, Teren Sevea, an Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, interviews Suvir Kaul, the A. M. Rosent...
Ajam Podcast #17: Framing the Indian Ocean
*The Indian Ocean series explores topics related to the Islamo-Arabic and Persianate world from the perspective of the Indian Ocean littoral and the p...
Ajam Podcast #16: Persian Gulf Modernities Before Oil
In this episode, Rustin speaks with Lindsey Stephenson, who is currently conducting postgraduate research at Princeton University, and the new host of...
Ajam Podcast #15: In Defense of Satan
In this episode, Rustin speaks with Mohammed Rustom, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. He is the author of The Triumph of...
Ajam Podcast #14: Reformist Political Thought in Iran
In this episode, Rustin speaks with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Lecturer in Comparative Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is t...
Ajam Podcast #13: Saving Baku's Salaam Cinema
In this episode, Rustin speaks with Leyli Gafarova, an independent filmmaker and the co-creator of Salaam Cinema, a community-driven independent cinem...
Ajam Podcast #12: The Rise & Fall of Khoqand
Central Asianists rejoice! In this episode, Rustin speaks with Scott Levi, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio State University. He is the author o...
Ajam Podcast #11: Nowruz Reflections
Happy Nowruz/Nawriz/Navruz/Novruz/Newroz everyone!
Nowruz is an ancient festival marking the arrival of Spring, celebrated across the Mid...
Ajam Podcast #10: Between Iran and Zion
In this episode, Rustin speaks with Lior Sternfeld, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Dr. Sternfeld is another alumnus...
Ajam Podcast #9: Soundtrack of the Revolution
In this episode, Kamyar and Rustin reunite in New York to speak with Nahid Siamdoust, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer and the Ehsan Yarshater Fell...
Ajam Podcast #8: Iranian Internationalism and Student Groups in the United States
In this episode, Rustin is joined by Manijeh Nasrabadi, Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of th...